On 03/18/2016 10:25 AM, John Jason Jordan wrote: ... > I have just about every PDF viewer installed that will run on Xubuntu > 14.04. My default workhorse is plain old Evince. Qpdfview is not bad, > but Evince has a "properties" option that displays information about > the file, including fonts, which is occasionally useful. Evince (like > Okular and qpdfview) can also import a straight Postscript file (.ps), > and then save as PDF if desired. Okular, as mentioned above, needs KDE, > but I have so many other KDE apps installed that it doesn't add much > more. I hardly ever use it because its print function is worthless, > e.g., if you tell it the document is landscape it still prints as > portrait, plus it fails to see options available in my prnters. Acroread > lets me view properties like fonts and usually prints correctly, but > takes forever to launch. Mostly I keep it around because if I need to > send a file to an outside print company Acroread is the gold standard. ...
Interesting: I haven't had print issues with Okular in something like ~4 yrs on the HP laser and deskjet. Portrait/landscape, duplex, and I can see and set printer options. BTW, I use the oldest Linux distro on the planet (No, not debian). -Ed _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
